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75 points·buluzhai··11 comments

Great list of books! How great is this book from 1984 - Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer (http://www.atariarchives.org/adventure/)

Wait, are these legally uploaded?

I saw more than a few recently published O'Reilly books on the list, so I'm guessing not.

EDIT: I noticed that some of the random titles I looked into actually link to the book website. For example: "Real World Haskell" goes to the realworldhaskell.com website. Maybe these are legal after all? A great find indeed if they are.

Everything I clicked on goes to legal downloads. Of course, I only clicked on a handful. But we all know there are a lot of illegal downloads out there, and I'm not seeing any that I recognize.

I don't know about RWH PDFs from O'Reilly, but all the content in that book was made available on the author's website.

They did sort of an open editing dealy.

I was pretty sure you needed to buy the book before you get that, I tried to follow links for a while to get the RWH pdf before and didn't succeed.

Edit: Seems that they are linking only to the site and not a pdf for RWH so it could well be legal :)

I tend to like reading physical books (gasp), but some of these are definitely worth scanning through. The E-Books Directory website as a whole has tons of good stuff on other topics, too.

It's collections like these that make me sorely tempted to purchase the new Kindle when it's released. Imagine having every one of these books in a portable, readable, display.

I prefer paper books also, but I also like having electronic copies for searching for specific information. I wish more publishers included cd-roms with their books.

This list is wicked awesome. I didn't realize RWH or KnR were online!

Nice find! Thanks for sharing!

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